The AI Cold War Has Started: Why Chinese AI Models Are Destroying US AI on Price

The AI industry just entered its most dangerous phase. Not because models are becoming smarter. Because they are becoming cheaper. For the past two years, US companies dominated the AI conversation: OpenAI built the most popular chatbot. Anthropic focused on safety. Google pushed Gemini into everything. Meta open-sourced powerful Llama models. But suddenly, Chinese AI companies started changing the game. Instead of trying to beat US models only on intelligence, they attacked the market from anot